The Structure of Scientific Theories

The Structure of Scientific Theories
Author: Frederick Suppe
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 854
Release: 1977
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780252006340

''A clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary philosophy of science.'' -- American Scientist ''The best account of scientific theory now available, one that surely commends itself to every philosopher of science with the slightest interest in metaphysics.'' -- Review of Mathematics ''It should certainly be of interest to those teaching graduate courses in philosophy of science and to scientists wishing to gain a further appreciation of the approach used by philosophers of science.'' -- Science Activities

The Structure of Science

The Structure of Science
Author: Ernest Nagel
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1979
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780915144723

Recent controversies between analytic and historic-sociological approaches to the philosophy of science have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatic component in Nagel's have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatic component in Nagel's thinking may be helpful for efforts to develop a rapprochement between the contending schools. -- Carl G Hempel

Visualizing the Structure of Science

Visualizing the Structure of Science
Author: Benjamín Vargas-Quesada
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2007-05-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540697284

This book presents a methodology for visualizing large scientific domains. Authors Moya-Anegón and Vargas-Queseda create science maps, so-called "scientograms", based on the interactions between authors and their papers through citations and co-citations, using approaches such as domain analysis, social networks, cluster analysis and pathfinder networks. The resulting scientograms offer manifold possibilities.

The Structure of Scientific Inference

The Structure of Scientific Inference
Author: Mary Hesse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520359879

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

The Logical Structure of Science

The Logical Structure of Science
Author: A. Cornelius Benjamin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000735494

This book addresses the argument in the history of the philosophy of science between the positivists and the anti-positivists. The author starts from a point of firm conviction that all science and philosophy must start with the given... But that the range of the given is not definite. He begins with an examination of science from the outside and then the inside, explaining his position on metaphysics and attempts to formulate the character of operational acts before a general theory of symbolism is explored. The last five chapters constitute a treatise to show that the development from one stage of symbolismto the next is inevitable, consequently that explanatory science represents the culmination of knowledge.

Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty

Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty
Author: Robert J. Richards
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 022631720X

Thomas S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the 'paradigm shift,' social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. The essays in this book exhume important historical context for Kuhn's work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics and Kuhn's own intellectual biography.

Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences

Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences
Author: Vincenzo De Risi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030255727

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz’s scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz. The essays deal with a vast array of topics on the exact sciences: Leibniz’s logic, mereology, the notion of infinity and cardinality, the foundations of geometry, the theory of curves and differential geometry, and finally dynamics and general epistemology. Several chapters attempt a reading of Leibniz’s scientific works through modern mathematical tools, and compare Leibniz’s results in these fields with 19th- and 20th-Century conceptions of them. All of them have special care in framing Leibniz’s work in historical context, and sometimes offer wider historical perspectives that go much beyond Leibniz’s researches. A special emphasis is given to effective mathematical practice rather than purely epistemological thought. The book is addressed to all scholars of the exact sciences who have an interest in historical research and Leibniz in particular, and may be useful to historians of mathematics, physics, and epistemology, mathematicians with historical interests, and philosophers of science at large.

Structure

Structure
Author: Wendy Pullan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2000-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521782586

Bridges and buildings, DNA, the periodic table, flora and fauna, machines, circuits, human beings and the societies of which they are part, even thoughts and ideas - all can be understood as particular structures which are part of our world and our experience of it. Yet the notion of structure, whether organic or inorganic, natural or artificial, is far more intangible. Too often the implication is of something rigid and complete, yet structure and the process of structuring can be both open and dynamic. These eight essays consider structure as an inclusive, open-ended theme offering itself to interpretation within many disciplines of the sciences, arts and humanities. Each essay represents an attempt to ponder and assess the role of structure in a particular discipline by an author eminent in that field. In doing so, the essays become acts of 'structuring structure', true to the rich, dynamic nature of the topic.

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On
Author: William J. Devlin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319133837

In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.